Episode 82: Reactive programming and the Actor model with Jonas Bonér

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Reactive programming and the Actor model with Jonas Bonér

• Tell us about your background
• What is reactive programming?
• What is the actor model?  How does it fit with reactive programming?
• Why would someone use this way of programming?
• When is it applicable and when it is not a good fit?
• How does the actor model compare to other distributed programming paradigms (MPI, Map-Reduce)
• How can the system recover from node failure?
• What is Akka?
• What is it like to work at Lightbend?  Are you hiring?

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